When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period.
The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...
Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...
A stunning discovery in Roman Britain has revealed fingerprints left on liquid gypsum used to prepare bodies for burial, ...
New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...
The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...
Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...
Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.